[Dunan]

I envy your ability to be open about your (partial?) deafness. I have normal hearing in one ear but am almost entirely deaf in the other, and have looked into getting a hearing aid for it. (I'm also blind on that side, and there is no fix for that.)

Society can be pretty vicious when you ask people to stand on a specific side of you, or turn your head 180 degrees so that you can point your good ear toward them, but I think if you have a visible hearing aid, people will be less surprised if you spring a request like that on them. Paradoxical, because the device means that you can hear them no matter which side they're on!

I feel like in today's era of ubiquitous headphones you could have even a hearing aid that looked like something else, and it wouldn't look that out of place. If I get a hearing aid, I'll go for a gray (or white, or black) one like yours.